POLISH NATIONAL CULTURAL MOVEMENT IN KHARKIV REGION IN THE 1920S–1930S

Abstract

This article investigates national cultural life of Poles of Kharkiv region in the 1920s–1930s, its characteristic features and stages of development. It establishes that the policy of korenizatsiya contributed to the development of Polish national and cultural organizations, among which the most popular were those who were under the weakest Party control. In the 1930s Polish cultural activists were persecuted by the authorities and subsequently destroyed physically; national cultural life of Poles in Kharkiv region was interrupted for a long time.